After a number of underwhelming months, it appears as if Ok-pop’s comeback floodgates will burst open in October. Earlier than that, we’re handled to some pre-releases from artists slated to return subsequent month. SM Leisure’s Hearts2Hearts don’t but have a mini or full album to their title and have offered conflicting sounds to date. The Chase and and Fashion couldn’t be extra totally different from one another, making it troublesome to parse simply what sort of group H2H will likely be going ahead.
Fairly Please additional complicates issues, although in some methods it blends each sounds collectively. It’s reserved in the best way The Chase was, but has moments of the buoyant pleasure that drove Fashion. Greater than something, the tune appears like a throwback to a special technology of SM idols. And once I say “throwback,” I imply all the best way again. This mild, mid-tempo R&B sound was favored by the company’s first-gen lady teams — each the mega-successful ones and the flash-in-the-pans. On this manner, Fairly Please elicits emotions of consolation. SM’s producers have at all times been nice at layering vocals in a manner that lends weight to those R&B-pop confections and that confirmed association works wonders right here.
Nonetheless, the most effective songs of this style additionally impress with timeless melodies. Fairly Please is sort of good on this division and I can see its hook rising extra indelible with time, however it additionally feels a bit too understated. I suppose this is smart for a pre-release. The refrain works higher than the verses, which pussy foot round in a manner the place the entire turns into lower than the sum of its components. Nonetheless, the blatant nostalgia is sufficient to pull the tune over the road. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see what they’ve up their sleeves for the title monitor.
| Hooks | 8 |
| Manufacturing | 8 |
| Longevity | 8 |
| Bias | 8 |
| RATING | 8 |
Grade: B-
